Just two years after its launch as a competitor to Twitter (now X), Meta’s Threads app has surpassed 400 million monthly active users (MAUs), Instagram ‘s president Adam Mosseri announced Tuesday .
“Until a few weeks ago, Threads had over 400 million monthly active users,” Mosseri wrote. “It’s been a rollercoaster ride for the last two years. What started as a wild idea to compete with Twitter has evolved into a meaningful platform that encourages the open sharing of perspectives. I’m grateful to all of you for making this place what it is today. There’s a lot of work to be done on our end, and more to come.”
This new milestone means Threads added 50 million monthly active users last quarter. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in the last week of April that the platform had reached over 350 million monthly active users .
Meanwhile, according to previous statements by X’s former CEO Linda Yaccarino , the company’s monthly active user count is over 600 million.
Recent data from market intelligence provider Similarweb showed that Threads is approaching X’s daily app users on mobile . Threads’ iOS and Android mobile app reached 115.1 million daily active users in June 2025, a 127.8% increase from the previous year. Meanwhile, X reached 132 million daily active users, a 15.2% decrease from the previous year.
But Similarweb found that X’s daily website visits worldwide are far ahead of Threads. The Elon Musk-owned social network saw an average of 145.8 million daily website visits worldwide in June, compared to just 6.9 million for Threads.
Threads’ growth has come as the platform has introduced numerous new features over the past year, including DMs , fediverse integrations , custom feeds , AI enhancements , and more.
